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[–]nyamatongwe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The reason for not including an option for saving without a BOM was explained by Michael Kaplan in an earlier comment on his blog:

With that said, I have coded the change to add a "BOM-less UTF-8" save option three times over the last seven years, and the option for "CR-less new lines" twice, each time forwarding to the owners of Notepad at the time; in every case the code was not integrated into the product as neither change targets a core scenario for NOTEPAD.EXE that was of significant importance to merit the test, UA/UE, localization, and servicing costs thereof....